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| author | John Cai <jcai@gitlab.com> | 2019-05-07 23:16:12 -0700 |
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| committer | John Cai <jcai@gitlab.com> | 2019-05-15 14:54:47 -0700 |
| commit | 4570443e75b1aea1a849115e3a4dc49bb05674c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d990ce2993836ff817d2cbe6a872333198411ae | |
| parent | 4f447e0f4b87d77f1de408cd69a66323465437f8 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-jc-docs-for-git-pcre2.tar.gz | |
Add docs to describe how to compile git with libpcre2jc-docs-for-git-pcre2
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install/installation.md | 26 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install/installation.md b/doc/install/installation.md index c694f0ed691..d1aff376aa2 100644 --- a/doc/install/installation.md +++ b/doc/install/installation.md @@ -99,7 +99,20 @@ sudo apt-get install -y git-core git --version ``` -Is the system packaged Git too old? Remove it and compile from source. +Starting with GitLab 12.0, Git is required to be compiled with `libpcre2`. +Find out if that's the case: + +```sh +ldd /usr/local/bin/git | grep pcre2 +``` + +The output should be similar to: + +``` +libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x00007f08461c3000) +``` + +Is the system packaged Git too old, or not compiled with pcre2? Remove it and compile from source: ```sh # Remove packaged Git @@ -108,12 +121,21 @@ sudo apt-get remove git-core # Install dependencies sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev build-essential +# Download and compile pcre2 from source +curl --silent --show-error --location https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre2-10.33.tar.gz --output pcre2.tar.gz +tar -xzf pcre2.tar.gz +cd pcre2-10.33 +chmod +x configure +./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-jit +make +make install + # Download and compile from source cd /tmp curl --remote-name --location --progress https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.21.0.tar.gz echo '85eca51c7404da75e353eba587f87fea9481ba41e162206a6f70ad8118147bee git-2.21.0.tar.gz' | shasum -a256 -c - && tar -xzf git-2.21.0.tar.gz cd git-2.21.0/ -./configure +./configure --with-libpcre make prefix=/usr/local all # Install into /usr/local/bin |